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A brush fire broke out in a vacant field behind the Wal Mart store in Bryant at approximately 4 p.m. on Monday, March 5. Two fire trucks and two brush trucks from the Bryant Fire Department responded to the call. One brush truck from the Collegeville Fire Department assisted in fighting the fire. High winds fanned the flames northward toward Arkansas 5. Ryan McCormick of the Bryant Fire Department said the cause of the fire was not determined at the time.

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Skip to comments.Dow Hits Fresh Multi-Year High, on Track for Best Close Since Oct. 2007
Posted on 02/12/2013 12:38:28 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUsEdited on 02/12/2013 2:50:22 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Stocks held near session highs Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting a fresh five-year high ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address later this evening.
With the Dow's move higher, the blue-chip average is now less than 1 percent from its all-time record close of 14,164.53 hit on October 9, 2007. The Dow is up more than 7 percent so far in 2013.
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The markets are so over inflated right now - watch for the balloon to pop....
This bubble is going to make 2000 look like a cake walk.
The Dow is pretty useless as an economic indicator.
Since it values perception it will probably come crashing down soon.
I just need it to keep a slight positive direction to get value for my 401(k)..
"This bubble is going to make 2000 look like a cake walk."
It sure is!
Yet many people will parrot that, "the market is up" as if they know what they're talking about, or they just hit some sort of jackpot.
The Dow is pretty useless as an economic indicator.
Since it values perception it will probably come crashing down soon.
I just need it to keep a slight positive direction to get value for my 401(k)..
It just means your money is worthless.
The VIX is currently 12.87. Stocks will be somewhat safe to buy when it's in the mid 40's. :)
Since it values perception it will probably come crashing down soon.
I believe you are correct. For the same reason the cost of gold is skyrocketing. The value of gold hasn't changed, but the value of our dollars to purchase it have plummeted, thus giving a false indication. The stocks aren't actually increasing in value either, it's just the amount of increasingly worthless dollars necessary to purchase them that makes this whole house of cards a mirage.
VIX is at a 5 year low. Good time for the "buy and hold" investor. If you look to trade the swings not so much...
Complete bull$h!it. 14,164.53 in 2007 money is equal to 15,684 in 2013 money. So this is a lie.
The Obama regime means even more pain at the pump as his toadies continue to place burdensome regulations on domestic energy production.
The 2014 elections aren't really all that far off and Conservatives can leverage the massive unemployment, sky-high prices and the extreme inflation (as evidenced by these whimsical Dow numbers) to take total control of both House and Senate. When Newt Gingrich's Conservative Revolution energized America in the mid-1990s, we enjoyed gas prices under a dollar, full employment and a robust economy. I can foresee 2014 being a repeat of what happened 20 years ago.
Rebellion is brewing! Go Tea Party Go! Take America back in 2014! Drill baby drill! Frack baby frack!
...and leading the charge...
The Bozo stock market is bought and sold In Bozo printed money which is half of what it was when Bush was POTUS.
The 13,999 Dow jones is worth only about 6990 and as Bozo's presses at the mint keep running the thing gets worse.
The crash coming will have many, many stock experts jumping out windows again. A large pile of them would be fitting!
That's absolutely right. Business travel takes me throughout the country. Once I leave Texas and Oklahoma, I see nothing but despair everyone -- shuttered factories, failing farms, boarded up storefronts and shopping malls nearly empty of retailers. The Obama economy has brought widespread misery to nearly all business sectors.
Of course, there are some (perhaps many?) on Wall Street complicit in the myth-making. A good number of those involved in the markets are manipulating the number to make things appear good for their boy. That's among the reasons why the DJIA may look good but the fundamentals are just plain terrible. It's just like when Government Motors announces its quarterly sales and revenues -- all lies.
Such wonderful timing for the SOTU.
Have a look around April or May again, then fill up on cheaper gas and start your tourism engines! ;-)
Yep...now would be the time to skidaddle...
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A growing number of international agreements dealing with chemicals of international concern, such as Persistent Organic Pollutants [2] (POPs) or chemicals included in the Prior Informed Consent [3] (PIC) procedure, oblige countries to make national risk management decisions concerning priority chemicals. Taking into consideration experience gained through European Commission-funded pilot projects in Chile, Cameroon, Tanzania, and The Gambia, activities conducted under this programme promote the development of skills and procedures at the country level relevant to implementing risk management decision making processes and action plan development for priority chemicals. Further country-level training has taken place in Ghana and, in the context of the Stockholm Convention [4], in The Gambia and Mozambique. Future training is planned in India and Pakistan.
The programme area is implemented through country-based projects during which partner countries choose a priority chemical and develop a risk reduction/elimination strategy for the identified chemical through a process involving all affected and interested parties. Previous phases of the programme were conducted in cooperation with the International Programme on Chemical Safety [5] (IPCS).
A guidance document, developed in cooperation with UNEP and IPCS, is available in working draft form for country use. Download [6]
Thematic Workshop
A thematic workshop [7] on Strengthening National Capacities for Risk Management Decision-Making for Priority Chemicals, held in Geneva in 1999, reviewed the lessons learned and experiences gained through four country-based pilot projects to develop risk reduction strategies for priority chemicals that were implemented in Cameroon, Chile, Tanzania, and The Gambia. Through a series of plenary discussions and working groups, a wide range of suggestions were generated on practical ways and means to strengthen capacities in countries in the area of risk assessment/risk management decision-making.
Country-based Pilot Case Studies on Risk Assessment and Risk Management Decision-Making for Priority Chemicals
Within the framework of the UNITAR/IPCS Training and Capacity Building Programme on Chemical Risk Assessment and Risk Management Decision Making, country-based pilot case studies were initiated in January 1999 in Cameroon, Chile, The Gambia and Tanzania. Through these pilot case studies, country-based task forces comprised of relevant experts from within and outside of government gained practical experience in the development of a proposed risk reduction strategy for a particular chemical/pesticide or group of chemicals/pesticides. The substances selected by the pilot countries as the basis for this exercise were as follows: Cameroon (PCBs); Chile (Lead); The Gambia (Tetramethrin, Permethrin); and Tanzania (Endosulfan).
During the course of a 6-month period, each country worked through a step-by-step process, starting with a risk assessment exercise addressing conditions of use in the country and drawing upon internationally available assessments and tools, and culminating with the development of a risk reduction strategy which is developed through involvement of concerned and interested parties.
The primary aim of the pilot case studies was to strengthen human resource capacities in participating countries in view of the growing interest and commitment in developing countries to make risk management decisions for priority chemicals. Guidance and resource materials and a small country grant were provided to each country. In addition, external resource persons visited each country to assist the country task forces in overall implementation of the pilot case study and in the context of an "on-the-case" risk assessment workshop.
Subregional Workshops
UNITAR organised two sub-regional training and capacity building workshops on chemical risk management decision-making in 1999. The events were held in Africa and Latin America, and built upon the outcomes of the Pilot Case Studies conducted in Cameroon, Chile, The Gambia, and Tanzania as well as the results of the Thematic Workshop on Risk Management Decision Making.
Risk Management Decision Making under the Stockholm Convention
UNITAR's POP Programme Area assisted The Gambia and Mozambique in developing management options for both POPs that are included under the Stockholm Convention at present, and for other chemicals that may be considered for nomination as possible POPs in the future. For more information, please click here [8].


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Why Do Rappers Hold Their Guns Sideways?
Because it looks so Hollywood.
As police chased Raymond "Ready" Martinez through Times Square on Thursday, the street hustler and aspiring rapper fired two shots, holding the gun sideways "like a character out of a rap video." According to the New York Post, Martinez's side grip caused the gun to jam, enabling police to shoot and kill the suspect. What's the point of holding a gun sideways?
To look Hollywood, of course. Journalists and gun experts point to the 1993 Hughes brothers film Menace II Society, which depicts the side grip in its opening scene, as the movie that popularized the style. Although the directors claim to have witnessed a side grip robbery in Detroit in 1987, there are few reports of street gangs using the technique until after the movie came out. The Hughes brothers didn't invent the grip, though. In 1961's One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando used it, as did Eli Wallach in 1966's The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Directors may prefer the style because it makes it easier to see both the weapon and the actor's face in a tight camera shot.
While the New York Post reported that Martinez's side grip caused the gun to "stovepipe"—that's when the spent casing gets caught in the ejection port, jamming the weapon—it's unlikely that the horizontal orientation caused the failure. In theory, tilting a gun sideways—90-degrees counter-clockwise for a right-handed shooter—means that gravity works against the ejection of the spent casing. As a practical matter, however, gravity is so weak compared to the force of the ejection that jamming is no more frequent in the sideways position than in the customary one. The more likely cause of the jam was Martinez's choice of weapon and ammunition. The MAC-10 is prone to stovepiping—a problem that's exacerbated by the use of hollow-point bullets, which may become deformed and scrape the inside of the barrel, or underpowered ammunition, which can slow the slide and throw off the mechanism's timing.
While the side grip does not increase the risk of stovepiping, it is terrible for aim. It's extremely difficult to properly use the top-mounted sight on a handgun that is turned sideways. Not that this matters much to the average street criminal. According to an FBI study, 60 percent of them don't even use the sight. Aiming a gun sideways has long been shorthand for risky, indiscriminate shooting. The title character in George Washington Cable's 1894 novel John March, Southerner, exclaims, "No man shall come around here aiming his gun sideways; endangering the throngs of casual bystanders!"
During the first half of the 20th century, soldiers used the side grip for the express purpose of endangering throngs of people. Some automatic weapons from this era—like the Mauser C96 or the grease gun—fired so quickly or with such dramatic recoil that soldiers found it impossible to aim anything but the first shot. Soldiers began tilting the weapons, so that the recoil sent the gun reeling in a horizontal rather than vertical arc, enabling them to spray bullets into an onrushing enemy battalion instead of over their heads.
Nowadays, the only time professionals use the side grip is while holding riot shields, which limit their field of vision. Turning the gun and raising it up make the sight slightly more visible.
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The next leg of Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience tour is officially underway, and I highly recommend you check it out. Dates and info are here. I saw the JBLZE at the Best Buy Theater in the heart of Times Square in NYC last November 8, and was blown away by his setlist choices (which I won't give away here) combined with the heartfelt personal stories he related between songs about the life and times of his father, the late drumming icon John Bonham.
Jason and I sat down before that NYC show to talk about the sonic secrets of the mighty Zep's rhythm section, and that full interview will post here soon. But there's one thing I can share with you all right now.
My most pressing question for Jason had to do with a scene in the 1976 film The Song Remains the Same, one that occurred during one of John Bonham's segments, interspersed between the mighty Zep's powerful (though some would say uneven) live MSG performances. In this particular scene, a then nine-year-old Jason is shown bashing away behind a drum kit while his proud papa cheers him on. So my question to Jason was this: Are those floor-standing speakers behind you Sansui? And do you or your Mom still have them?
He didn't hesitate in answering: "Yes, they're Sansui speakers. And I'm pretty sure Mom still has them back in England."
The next day, Jason emailed me the confirmation after checking with her: "Yes, they're still at home, and we had them reconditioned about 10 years ago. She's running them with McIntosh amps and preamps."
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I've searched for a thread about this game and could not find it. This is an XCOM remake from Firaxis. I've seen a couple videos and it looks to be very nice. Be warned, both videos have some spoiler content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88EcjtD ... ature=plcp
In this video they talk about the base and the different facilities, which look very good I must say, they also talk about the trade offs the player has to make, emphasizing some facilities over others, nice strategic element.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... mrob4oHhZk
This other video shows some gameplay, looks very satisfying.
Being that it comes from Firaxis (albeit without Brian Reynolds) I have my hopes up for this one, however as pointed in some of the comments, the teams look to be of up to 6 marines only, infinite ammo, no base attacks by the aliens and no random terrain, so I don't know. AFAIK Xenonauts will have random terrain, but the combat does not look as good as the one in XCOM EU from what I've seen. What do you guys think?
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Xenonauts looks like a modern remake of X-Com, while the Firaxis X-Com is a rework. I imagine they're going to be quite different games, and (hopefully) both very fun.
When Civ5 was in development, I shut my brain off and told myself I was going to buy it first day. Fortunately reality intervened and I didn't have the funds to get it that day, and had to settle for reading the early reviews, and I'm glad I did, because it kept me from wasting my money and time on it. As much as I loved the originals, XCOM *will not* be a first day purchase for me, there's too much that they seem to be leaving out from the originals, and with the benefit of hindsight from Civ5, I'll be perusing the early reviews with a very critical eye before pulling the trigger. About the best thing I could say about it so far is that it at least *looks* like what I hoped a next-gen XCOM would look like, now all that's left to see is what the gameplay is like.
Well, gonna have to buy that. The gameplay looks like they really respect the original.
From what I have seen so far and the lengths that it appears that Firaxis is going to as far as respecting the original this is going to be a must buy for me.
I'm optimistic about this title. They've taken out the things I hated, like time units and multiple full-service bases, and focused on more tactical game play. This pleases me. I still want to see how they expand radar/intercept coverage once your base is set.
I've followed this casually since it was announced and also went to their PAX panel. As a huge X-Com fan I'm sad about some of the simplifications they've made, but it still looks like it could be a fun game. Unless there's some really awful pre-release buzz or reveals, I'll be picking it up and will give it a try although I know I ought to do the smart thing and give it a month and get a better read from reviews and how people feel after the 3-5 week "new, shiney" buzz wears off.
I went to the PAX panel too. You could tell how in love the designers are with the original X-Com and they are making this title with care. I'll be buying it day 1 for sure.
Six is a strange number for squad size. Squads ought to be atleast 8 members.
This is only the second game I will actually be pre-ordering and in the collectors edition. The first was Civ3 and that didn't turn out all that well. On that one I more or less ignored the previews and let my fan-boy status for all things Civ get the best of me, I do have a nice tin to keep things in though.
When it was first announced that there was going to be a new x-com I was overjoyed, until I learned it was going to be a FPS. That soured me on XCom so much I just ignored all new announcements on XCom after that. When I was browsing the Firaxis site for something I was quite pleasantly surprised when I found out that Firaxis was doing a TBS XCom game.
After seeing all the coverage from E3, all the demo footage, and all of the interviews I'm sure this is a game I want to try. I'm given hope because the people working on the game are huge fans of the original and they work for Firaxis and today no one does TBS as well as Firaxis.
I also went to the PAX panels and got a very positive and hopeful vibe about this game. If I preorder, it will probably be just a few weeks before release, but at this point I imagine I will.
The people I talked to at the booth, and the devs at the panel, all seemed to have played XCOM a great deal and loved the game very much.
When asked about how hard the hardest difficulty would be, their answer boiled down to "Losing is fun!" Which is as it should be.
I'm really really looking forward to this. I'll most likely pick it up a bit late though since the release is very close to borderlands 2.
What? No "Shut up and take my money" Fry image?
I'm really looking forward to this one. I think they're doing a great job, but after watching the videos, I was wondering how they would pull off base invasions. Looks like you answered it for me in the OP.
I gotta say, it's the little things that helped make X-COM so fun. Not being able to have your base invaded makes me very sad. It could be annoying to have a small listening post style base with a skeleton crew get invaded, but that really added something to the game too. Having a large squad touch down with only a few veterans was pretty sweet too. Sometimes I'd send out the rookies as fodder/training. Other times I would send out the whole squad (however many, like 16+) to make a net. It would be really cool when a small group of 3 or so guys were checking out a gas station and get taken out. I guess that can't really happen in this style. Having such a small group also makes me really really not want to lose anyone. In the original I would save before every turn, and my top ranked guys would always get a reload if something went horrible, but I'd let the rookies die often. In this, I wonder if there will be any red-shirts at all.
But it sounds like there are other small things that they kept intact, like being able to name your soldiers. I always thought it was funny naming them after my friends/family, it made it that much more important that they don't die.
It looks like a great game, I just still don't understand why we have to lose cool stuff when we're supposed to be progressing forward with technology. Oh well, I'll almost definitely buy it regardless.
Also, I wasn't aware of Xenonauts, I'll definitely have to check that one out now. Thanks.
I'll probably end up with both. I'll wait for XCOM remake to drop in price, however.
A couple things I recall from the panel:
You can zoom in on various areas of your base (gym, cafeteria, firing range) and see YOUR DUDES walking around. That struck me as pretty cool, even if it is really just eye candy.
In your base is a memorial to all of your fallen soldiers, with their names on a big black wall, which suggests they expect a certain number of them to die and for you to not reload.
Then there is Iron Man mode, where autosaves are the only saves. No reloading. Only tears.
While there won't be base attacks, there will still be politics and funding. Troop morale is also still a thing; when your sergeant gets capped, expect your rookies to flip out. When asked about Chrysallids, psionics, or Cydonia, the CR responded with a hearty "We haven't talked much about late game..." and moved on to the next question.
You will have to spend an action reloading your weapons, but you won't have to worry about putting ammo in your backpack vs your belt vs your thigh pocket. Nor will you be able to pick up your fallen comrades' weapons off the ground.
KT421 wrote:
You will have to spend an action reloading your weapons, but you won't have to worry about putting ammo in your backpack vs your belt vs your thigh pocket. Nor will you be able to pick up your fallen comrades' weapons off the ground.
This makes me sad. I remember playing TFTD heavily and doing the "training" missions like Kilgaine described. Just a boat full of rookies, and one veteran who stays on the ship. One Gauss rifle with 2 mags. Send the first poor sap out there. He caps an alien, another guy comes out to pick up the alien's weapon. (Obviously this takes place later once alien weapons are known) They cap another alien. Another guy comes out and grabs that alien's weapon. Hilarity ensues any way that this works out, short of the veteran getting MC'd after everyone else is dead.
I used to somewhat hand-select my veterans by their stats mostly going by their ability to resist psionic attacks. Like you said, I would leave the commander on the transport usually, and in late game he would have the remote controlled missile launcher, which was pretty awesome.
It sucked when things really went bad though. Even if he didn't get mind controlled, sometimes he would outright panick and drop the gun and wander around an alien base. That was usually a reload. Then again, I think I distinctly remember having a few missions that failed horribly, where only a few rookies were still alive, a few mind controlled, and just taking off with only the commander onboard, ditching the rest. They were expendable!!!
But this does make me wonder how they will handle stats. Before it was totally random, and sometimes you would get a guy who couldn't pick up a rocket launcher and walk more than one square, or people who would panick almost immediately (or be mind controlled and shoot your entire squad in the back with autofire heavy plasma )
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Nor will you be able to pick up your fallen comrades' weapons off the ground.
I don't like the changes they made such as no base invasions, only six members, and not being able to loot bodies for ammo. Xenonauts also has significant changes such as no telekinesis or blaster bombs. Lame. Still, TBS is so rare nowadays that I'm going to get both.
I know I'm not alone in wanting an HD remake of XCOM for the Samsung Tab or iPad. Just update the sprites. They could port it over to PC/Mac for mouse control. Short of that I don't think we'll ever be happy with the various changes.
It could be annoying to have a small listening post style base with a skeleton crew get invaded, but that really added something to the game too.
I used to setup my listening posts with radar, 8-10 plasma defense, 3 fusion ball defense, 300 elerium, and a grav unit. That thing would take out battleships no problem.
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Xenonauts also has significant changes such as no telekinesis or blaster bombs. Lame. Still, TBS is so rare nowadays that I'm going to get both.
I can't say that's a bad move. Psionics and blaster bombs really did break the game pretty badly.
NavyGothic wrote:
hoyle1911 wrote:
Xenonauts also has significant changes such as no telekinesis or blaster bombs. Lame. Still, TBS is so rare nowadays that I'm going to get both.
I can't say that's a bad move. Psionics and blaster bombs really did break the game pretty badly.
This is true, but I feel like they could have balanced those items instead of taking them out completely. It does make Xenonauts more down to earth and conventional than the other XCOM titles which become pretty exotic in the late game.
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When asked about Chrysallids, psionics, or Cydonia, the CR responded with a hearty "We haven't talked much about late game..." and moved on to the next question.
From the coverage I've seen it looks like the Chrysalids(not sure of the spelling) will be back along with psionics. That's about all they have given up on the late game.
I went to Amazon and found the X-Com collection for $2.99 for all 5 of the first games. The first two were all that I was interested in. It is a download playable via Steam though. I did take a while to relearn the interface after several years of no X-Com. I've put about 20 hours into it so far. I hope that Faraxis can maintain the feel of the original and then I will be a happy camper.
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IMHO, psionics were great- scary and put the onus of action on the humans, and that same scariness made it so cool when you got them for yourself. I'm sad to hear about their absence in Xenonauts and their late-game-ness in Enemy Unknown.
I'm not sorry to see blaster bombs go, although they'd be better if they kept them in but nerfed them somewhat. (make them a lot less maneuverable and not have perfect accuracy, frex)
I'm pretty sure in this interview they said that Blaster Bombs will be in the game.
http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/06/aj-spoo ... interview/
The lack of base defense does disappoint me because it was so scary when that would happen out of the blue, but hopefully they've given you plenty to be afraid of. The size of the team I actually kind of like, it makes it harder if anything.
hatfarm wrote:
I'm pretty sure in this interview they said that Blaster Bombs will be in the game.
I believe the no-blaster-bomb bit was Xenonauts discussion.
hatfarm wrote:
The size of the team I actually kind of like, it makes it harder if anything.
My squads were always between six and eight in the original. The large platoon size forces at the end game made things too easy.
multiple full-service bases
I used to like specializing my bases. I'd have a manufacturing base, a research base, a couple of interceptor heavy bases etc. Usually my main base is where most of my troops were, and arranging shipments of weapons around the world was micromanaging at its best, but I enjoyed having specialized bases with heavy defenses and a self-defense squad.
Am I to understand from your comment that you just get the one base now?
You get one main base, with satellite facilities (and satellites) to aid in interception and detection.
I think the cool thing about the original games is that there are so many ways people can play it, everyone can play it in their own different way. The new one seems to reduce this flexibility, they want to you to play it their way, which is kind of sad. Still, I'll probably get this having been starved of xcom games for so long.
1 hour long real game play video covering two missions and some main base activities.
I am going to pre-order it after seeing this.
cf18 wrote:
1 hour long real game play video covering two missions and some main base activities.
I am going to pre-order it after seeing this.
Fuckin' A, thanks for this! I'd already pre-ordered, but look forward to watching this.
The community manager is a tad annoying.
Multiplayer, you say? I am... intrigued.
cf18 wrote:
1 hour long real game play video covering two missions and some main base activities.
I am going to pre-order it after seeing this.
KT421 wrote:
Multiplayer, you say? I am... intrigued.
They've already talked about it a bit. It's 1v1, XCOM vs Aliens. So nothing really to do with base mechanics or anything, but just combat scenarios. It is however, apparently the first time players will get to play as the Aliens, which could be a lot of fun.
It's an important distinction to make...
More detail about multiplayer here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... ldnt-worry
I'm not liking the size of the maps in that 1 hour video. Everything else met with my approval.
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Thanks for that link. Game pre-ordered.


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Adult Intermediate Ballet
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Al Whitaker joined the WHNT News 19 news team in September, 2012, following a decade as the Media Relations Director at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
"The Space Center kept me close to journalism, getting to work with producers, photographers and reporters from all over the world, but I missed the work and jumped at the opportunity to become a part of the 19 News team," Al says.
Aside from the stint at the Space Center, Al has spent his entire career in broadcasting, starting with an AM radio transmitter he built from a kit at age 7 (learning rather quickly that a wire stretched across the roof of his parent's home greatly enhanced the range of the little rig), to those first paying jobs in radio at WANA and WDNG in Anniston while still at Anniston High School.
After college, he worked as News Director at WEYY in Talladega before moving "home" to North Alabama to become News Director at WQLT and then at WVNA.
It was during that time Al made the jump to television journalism and over the years has gained experience as a reporter, photographer, and even News Director, winning a number of awards along the way for both his photography and his reporting.
Al covers Limestone, Morgan and Lawrence Counties exclusively. He and his wife, Kim, live in Elkmont. Together they have 5 children and 5 grandchildren.
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OK....I'm really happy. Giddy.
The economy sucks. Trying to make something in America that is a little different and costs more...(duh)
The existing business model doesn't work......Can't fixit or get anyone to listen. Everybody wants to use new technology and content but they refuse to think about the real ways to make it work and more global and accessible. Everybody wants to control the inventory.....Thats another blog. My fingers hurt from trying to defend the old school
This is for you Craig....
If dreams were cognizant of reality I would be toast. Why? Up to now the perception of the Rock and Roll star for young kids was Hot Chicks, Limos, Touring, Recording. The finest of everything and boatloads of money. The perception created the dream of being a rock star drove the kids to play the guitar and emulate their fav's. Like a kid wanting to be Tiger Woods in golf.....arrrghh. Barry Bonds in baseball...Now the biggest selling Rockstar is an energy drink.
We are reintroducing Music Man amps with my good friend Marco of Mark Bass and I was asked to write a short paragraph....hahahaha
Sitting down to write this re-introduction of Music Man Amps brings back memories
.all good.
Music Man was a company that was formed by Leo Fender, Tommy Walker, and Forrest White. You all know Mr. Fender
but behind the scenes there was a very talented
group of men and women that helped make the old Fender Musical Instrument company
I am a card carrying entrepreneur.
America was built on the backs of passionate entrepreneurs. Every success story, publicly traded company and institution today started as entrepreneurs and somehow lost their way. Here is my perspective.
My best analogy is the caterpillar. The slink along the ground and crawl and do what they want. They somehow stumble into this process that they don't quite understand....its called a cocoon. After awhile they break out and become
Updated 01-05-2010 at 11:22 AM by Big Poppa
In the old days....(about a decade ago...ok maybe two) a manufacturer did print ads, point of purchase material, artist endorsements and if you were progressive like my father you came out with a t shirt....(1971...the first promotional clothing in our industry) to market their product. There was no line or distinction between marketing and advertising. It was all the same. The last ingredient of your 'marketising' was that you left it to your dealer to tell your story.
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You heard the Manti Te'o story? Good grief. Today, Notre Dame says that Te'o was the victim of a cruel, elaborate hoax.
"There's a lot of tragedy here, there's a lot of sorrow here," [Notre Dame athletic director Jack] Swarbrick said.
"But the thing I am most sad of is–" he added, pausing to apologize and wipe away tears, is "that the single most trusting human being I have ever met will never be able to trust in the same way ever again."
Boy, that takes some chutzpah. Te'o is a lying liar who lies. Look:
Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o perpetuated the heartbreaking story about her death.
An Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 11. He and the university said Wednesday that he learned on Dec. 6 that it was all a hoax, that not only wasn't she dead, she wasn't real.
Sports Illustrated posted a previously unpublished transcript of a one-on-one interview with Te'o from Sept. 23, during which he went into great detail about his relationship with Kekua and her physical ailments. He also mentioned meeting her for the first time after a game in California.
"We met just, ummmm, just she knew my cousin. And kind of saw me there so. Just kind of regular," he told SI.
It's possible that Te'o got scammed, but elaborated and bragged in interviews, and then was too embarrassed to tell the truth. Maybe. But we know that he knew at least on December 6, but he kept up the pretense. Liar.
But the media — good grief, what's their excuse? They wanted to believe the story. That's all there is to it. I could have fallen for that too. Confirmation bias.
UPDATE: Hey Swarbrick, how about a tear or two for Lizzy Seeberg?
UPDATE.2: LSU farkers are unloading on the guy. Rude comedy gold, ratcheer. Read down to the Star Wars one, at least.
UPDATE.3: Will Leitch on the questions Manti Te'o, who is either a sociopathic liar or the world's most thick-headed naif, needs to answer.


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The Green Man: An Exhibition
On View March 20 through June 19, 2010
This series of paintings by British-born poet and painter Basil King depicts the Green Man, the pre- Christian archetypal figure of creation and the earth, emerging in the guise of British historical figures, such as Guy Fawkes and Walter Raleigh.
Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment. Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, June 19, 2010 (All day)


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The Palmetto State has landed some big-name European companies over the years: notably Michelin, BMW and Bosch.
But a medical sociologist at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine wants to make molecules and DNA as readily known in the vocabulary of industry recruits as the nuts-and-bolts companies already geared up across South Carolina.
"Europeans have always found South Carolina a good place to locate their companies. But now, instead of focusing only on large consumer goods manufacturers that produce cars and tires that we can touch, we're also focusing on small biotech companies that produce molecules that can be seen only through electron microscopes," said Emerson Smith, president of Metromark Market Research Inc. of Columbia.
Metromark, in addition to working with hospitals and physicians to provide quality care and market analysis, brings together biotech companies in the U.S. to collaborate with companies in Europe.
"It is a different scale of manufacturing, but one that holds a great deal of potential in terms of expanding our knowledge economy in South Carolina to create high-paying jobs and to attract U.S. and European investors," he said.
To that end, Brad Goodwin, CEO of CharlestonPharma, a Charleston-based company focused on developing innovative therapeutic antibodies and related diagnostic tests for cancer patients, and two other biotech company representatives from South Carolina were in Warsaw, Poland, recently.
At the invitation of Poland's Ministry of Economy, the three scientists were representing the state's medical biotech industry.
Goodwin could not be reached for comment about his trip experience, but Igor Roninson, president of cancer-research firm Senex Biotechnology Inc. of Columbia and a professor at the University of South Carolina, said the trip was rewarding.
"We met with a number of Polish companies and identified potential collaborators and potential subcontractors," Roninson said. "We are planning to follow up on those initial contacts and see what can develop."
Smith said the three men used the opportunity to tell Polish scientists about the opportunities available in South Carolina through the S.C. Research Authority, state research universities and regional business alliances.
The Warsaw conference brought together scientists from South Carolina and Poland to learn about each other's research, how patents from biotech companies are being commercialized and how the companies can work together across the Atlantic.
Medical biotech companies are discovering drugs and therapies to treat cancer, heart disease, stroke and other health problems, according to Smith.
Once these drugs are tested in clinical trials and approved by the Food and Drug Administration, patients in Charleston, Warsaw and elsewhere in the world can benefit from the discoveries made by research teams at the three South Carolina biotech companies and at other biotech companies based in the state, Smith said.
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"Lara Croft is one of the most iconic videogame heroines there is, and her reboot hit shelves this past Tuesday. That got us thinking here at Pixelitis: videogame heroines are few and far between.
Think about it: Nintendo's most popular characters, Mario and Link, are both male, the Xbox 360 is headlined by the masculine Master Chief and Marcus Fenix and Sony flaunts Nathan Drake and Kratos. Zelda, Cortana and Elena Fischer are all great characters in their own regard, but it's obvious that these women are overshadowed by their male counterparts.
Between this fact and Lara Croft's return to gaming, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity for highlighting our favorite videogame heroines, and what makes them so damn awesome – aside from their physical features, of course."
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- Ferrari news
Alonso names Hamilton strongest rival
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Fernando Alonso has named Lewis Hamilton as his strongest rival in Formula One and expects him to "win more than one race" for Mercedes this year.
Hamilton's switch to Mercedes from McLaren raised a few eyebrows last season as Mercedes struggled to fifth in the constructors' championship. However, Alonso said that his 2007 McLaren team-mate is his strongest rival and that Nico Rosberg's victory in China last season leads him to believe Hamilton will win races in 2013.
"Why do I say Hamilton is the strongest? Because it's what I think, it's my personal opinion and there is nothing political in that," Alonso said. "Lewis has always won races ever since he has been in Formula One, even in years like 2009, when he had started the season with a car that was two seconds off the quickest. When you look at what happens on track, you are well aware of what he is doing, that's a fact. Last year, Rosberg won in China, therefore I expect that this year, Lewis in a Mercedes can win more than one race."
Alonso clarified that his comments didn't mean Hamilton would be his main title rival, however, and praised Sebastian Vettel for his recent dominance.
"I did not say that Vettel was not the strongest or that he did not deserve his three titles. There have been periods, like in 2011, when his performance level was fantastic and he was definitely the best. As of today, it's impossible to say who will be our strongest rivals in 2013. Who will have the best car, who will have done the best job of preparation and had the best development, who will be the luckiest: there are so many factors which go to make the strongest combination of driver and team."


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Vanessa Hudgens Wants a 'Loyal & Honest' Guy
Vanessa Hudgens is all smiles while taking a stroll with a guy pal on Tuesday (March 8) in Venice, Calif.
The 22-year-old Beastly star is wearing an entire outfit from 25 Park including a pair of bright pink Kenny "Guadalajara" shorts.
Vanessa recently dished on what characteristics she looks for in a guy.
"Somebody who is just true to themselves. Someone who's loyal and honest," she told the New York Daily News.
She also chatted about hitting several shows during New York Fashion Week.
"It was very exciting because Marc Jacobs was my very first sit-down runway fashion show I've ever been to. And [Vogue editor] Anna Wintour was sitting across from me, which was the most surreal moment I had. I got to go backstage and meet Marc and it was just a fantastic night," she recalled.
FYI: Vanessa finished her look with Elizabeth and James "Fairfax" sunglasses.


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Apologia is now producing notebooking journals that accompany each of the elementary science books. Both Botany and Astronomy are now available. You can see samples on the Apologia website here:
These journals are beautiful spiral bound notebooks that will save you time and money. You won't have to print and keep up with your child's notebook pages, buy and maintain page protectors, or purchase and compile binders...everything that makes notebooking time-consuming and labor intensive for mom. Also, your child will adore having their own notebooking journal.
Each of the notebooking journals include:
A daily schedule for those who like to have a plan or would like their children to complete the book on their own
Templates for written narrations, the notebooking activities and experiments
Review Questions
Scripture Copywork, with both print and cursive practice
Reading lists and additional activities, projects, experiments for each lesson
An appendix with beautiful, full-color, lapbook-style Miniature Books
Field Trip Sheets to keep a record field trips
A Final Review with fifty questions the students can answer either orally or in writing to show off all they remember and know at the end of the course.
See the sample pages here:
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Jeannie is giving away four Astronomy Notebooking Journals and four Botany Notebooking Journals to bloggers who post about this on their site. Visit her blog to learn more about this contest: www.jeanniesjournal.com


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Digital Media Statistics
comScore Releases European Engagement and Top Web Properties Rankings for April 2011
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- 01 June 2011
LONDON, UK, June 1, 2011 - comScore, Inc., ...today released an overview of internet usage in Europe, showing 365.3 million unique visitors went online in April 2011 for an average of 24.2 hours per person. This study draws its analysis from comScore's research panel, which shows internet usage in 49 European markets aggregated under the European region and provides individual reports on 18 markets.
Full article: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/6/comScore_Releases_European_Engagement_and_Top_Web_Properties_Rankings_for_April_2011


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I am working with some Boy Scouts who are studying for the Tech class license. Is it legal for a Tech class holder to talk to a DX contact in a country that is not on the 3rd party list when the contact is made under my Extra class call? The Scout would hold an FCC license but the QSO is not in his band segment.


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Democrats Fail to Impress in First 100 Days
Government Faulted on Vets' Care, Military Ratings Slip Post-Walter Reed
About this Survey
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 1,503 adults, 18 years of age or older, from March 21-25, 2007. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling is plus or minus 3 percentage points. For results based on Form 1 (N=753) and Form 2 (N=750) the sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.


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February 12th, 2013
Ticket Sales for Spring Ball 2013: Casino Royale!
Start Date: February 11, 2013
End Date: February 15, 2013
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
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Resume Ready: Leicester Campus, Career Services Workshop
Start Date: February 12, 2013
End Date: February 12, 2013
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Stoddard Room, Campus Center, 964 Main St, Leicester, MA
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Using Psychology Games and Activities of Yesteryear to Prepare for our Future (With Special Guest: Dr. Ronald G. Shapiro)
Start Date: February 12, 2013
End Date: February 12, 2013
Time: 6:45 pm to 8:15 pm
Room 210, Weller Academic Building, 61 Sever St., Worcester Campus
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Angle and Degree Measure
Lesson 1 of 19
Objective: Students will be able to find angles on a coordinate plane.
I include Warm ups with a Rubric as part of my daily routine. My goal is to allow students to work on Math Practice 3 each day. Grouping students into homogeneous pairs provides an opportunity for appropriately differentiated math conversations. The Video Narrative specifically explains this lesson's Warm Up- Angles and Degree Measure, which asks students to identify the angles created by the hands of a clock.
I also use this time to correct and record the previous day's Homework.
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This lesson begins with a quick review of quadrants. Students finally get to see why quadrants are placed in this specific manner. This is a bit of a hook for the lesson.
Next, I give them the major vocabulary about angles in standard form on a coordinate plane.
After they get a little experience with the most basic angles on a coordinate plane, I introduce them to coterminal angles. We begin by look at the negative/positive version of a given angle. For example, for 250o, we find the angle -110o. I then make a bit of a show going all the way around from 250o to 610o and ask the students what angle that would be. This blows their minds. I ask them to find another positive and then a negative one. We discuss how many total coterminal angles there would be (Math Practice 8). Given this new information, I then ask them what numbers we can use for angles now and if there are any limitations thus connecting angle measures to the real number system.
We do a few additional example as needed to ensure that everything gets it.
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Locker Combination Activity
The next activity has the students turn locker combinations into degrees (Math Practice 4). Students decide on a locker combination, turn it into the appropriate degrees, and then trade with their partner to decode their partner's degrees back into a combination. As a reminder (I had to look this up), you have to pass the first number at least 3 times (going right) before you hit the first number. Then you have to go left and pass the next number one time before hitting it. Go right and stop on the final number without passing. It is important to review this process with the students before beginning the activity.
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Exit Ticket
I use an exit ticket each day as a quick formative assessment to judge the success of the lesson.
Today's Exit Ticket asks the students to list three angles co-terminal with 100o.
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This Homework asks students to sketch a couple angles, some of which are larger than 180o. Next it asks students to identify some coterminal angles. The extension activity in the homework asks students to find the angle measures that the small hand of a clock moves in time (Math Practice 1). I have included a blank clock with the minutes marked to provide a physical model to those students who require some scaffolding.


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St Cyrus Park offers accommodation in Saint Cyrus. Aberdeen is 44 km from the property. The accommodation comes with a dining area and seating area with a TV.
Shorehead Seaside Cottages 2 offers accommodation in Johnshaven. The property boasts views of the sea and is 42 km from Aberdeen. Free private parking is available on site.
Seaforth Guest House is located in Johnshaven, 42 km from Aberdeen. A flat-screen TV, as well as a CD player are provided. You will find a kettle in the room.
Situated in Gourdon, this holiday home is set 38 km from Aberdeen. The unit is 16 km from Stonehaven. There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen complete with an oven and a microwave.
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County quilt show right around the corner
The LeFlore County OHCE Annual Quilt Show is just around the corner. The event will take place Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8 at the Kiamichi Technology Center adjacent to the Carl Albert State College campus in Poteau. The Show will be open 9a.m. - 4 p.m. each day.Remember the entry deadline is Wednesday, May 29. Entry forms and rules are available from the OSU Extension office in Poteau. Mailing address: P.O. Box 430, Poteau, 74953.Organizers have announced the presenters and subjects of the demonstrations:Friday, June 7 10 a.m. - "Coffee Mug Desserts" by Pat Skinner 11 a.m. - " Ditty Bag" by Donna Elliott1 p.m. - "Pillowcase Dresses" by Jane Naylor2 p.m. - "Sashing Stars" by Barbara Hall3 p.m. - "Easy & Fast Half-Square Triangles" by Wanda CleaverSaturday, June 8 10 a.m. - "5 X 5 Coaster" by Irene Puckette11 a.m. - "Quilt of Valor" by Betty Glinski1 p.m. - "Easy & Quick Pillowcases" by Naomi Valiere2 p.m. - "Peanut Brittle" by Shirley Phillips and Shirley O'Dell3 p.m. - "Microwave Pies" by Charlene Dunn KellyThere will be a drawing for a door prize at each demo!Food will be available to purchase in the Lunch Room. Menu items include Chicken Salad and Ham Salad sandwich plates and home baked goodies.Drawing for the beautiful "Tulips around the Cabin" quilt will be held Saturday afternoon.For further information contact the OSU Extension Center at (918) 647-8231


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Whitko ties Eastbrook
SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko's girls soccer team tied Eastbrook Wednesday.The Lady Wildcats and Lady Panthers ended the game 1-1.Whitko got its goal in the first half. Reghan Craig put the ball in the net unassisted.Eastbrook had its chance in the second half, getting a goal on a penalty kick.For the game, Whitko had 15 shots on goal overall. Goalkeeper Jordan Hall had eight saves for the Lady Wildcats.Whitko is now 5-3-5 for the season and next plays at Blackford Saturday.
Wildcats fall to PanthersSOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko's boys soccer team lost to Eastbrook Wednesday. The Panthers shut out the Wildcats by a final score of 4-0.Eastbrook scored two goals in each half to bring the game to its final margin.Whitko is now 2-10 and hosts Rochester tonight.


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Actor/rapper Nick Cannon has laughed off rumors he is angry at his wife Mariah Carey for her close friendship with Lenny Kravitz, insisting the rocker is part of the family.
Carey showed her affection for Kravitz recently when she publicly lobbied her new bosses at American Idol and suggested hiring her pal to join her as a judge on the hit reality show instead of rapper Nicki Minaj, who is said to be close to finalising a deal to appear on the panel.
The R&B superstar tweeted a photo of herself with the American Woman hitmaker and wrote, "AmericanIdol What's going on? need the info!! What about this combo? if we could ever get him to do it!"
Kravitz, who is co-starring with Carey in new movie The Butler, welcomed the idea and enthusiastically replied, "MariahCarey AmericanIdol Girl, we've known each other since we were teenagers. How fun would that be?!"
Their close relationship prompted tabloid editors to suggest Cannon had become jealous about the duo's cosy friendship, but the America's Got Talent host has since taken to Twitter to dismiss the claims.
He writes, "It's funny how the media just make up stuff. They said i'm mad because my wife suggested LennyKravitz for idol. That's our Fam! idiots".


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Need a new idea? Try looking around. That's what Marc Brown does. "There are wonderful ideas for stories all around," says Marc. "All you have to do is keep your eyes and your ears open. It might be something that happens at home with your sister. It might happen in your classroom. It might be on the bus. I feel envious of kids, because they are right in the middle of it, while I have to try and remember!
Whenever Marc has time, he loves to visit children in schools. For him, it is a way to connect with his readers. It helps Marc remember his own days in school. During these visits, he often finds material he can use in his own writing. "After all," Marc admits, "practically all of my characters come from the third grade."
When Marc steps into a school, he is all eyes and ears. "I go into overdrive," he says. "I find the day so exciting and intense. I'm like a sponge. There's all this great material everywhere. I try to remember it all." A passing conversation, the way a child opens a lunch box in the cafeteria — any of these ordinary details might spark an idea for Marc's next book.
When Marc gets an idea — it can be a picture, a funny ending to a story, the name of a character, even a book title — he stores it away until the time is right for that idea to "grow up" to become a book. Sometimes it takes years. "Sometimes," Marc confesses, "those ideas never grow up." He explains, "My ideas have to germinate a long time before they come together in a book. I depend on drawers full of scraps of stories, bits of dialogue, quick drawings, titles, concepts. At any one time there are probably 100 ideas in the drawer, not all of them good. Sometimes just one small part of a drawing, one line of a vignette is usable."


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You keep applying for new cards/credit.
Every time you do that, your hurting you score a little bit.
Granted when you get to a certain amount an extra inquiry isn't THAT bad (2 is obviously double 1 - but at 10 an 11th isn't THAT much bad).
Stop applying for credit as much as you can on a personal level. If you need credit for your business, I'd look at a collateral based loan. For instance if its to buy a piece of machinary I know banks give out loans on them however hold the machine as collateral - you get to use it and all that, however just like a car, if you stop paying they will reposses it. I obviously don't know much about your business or how its set up, but I do know from my family's business that you shouldn't be mixing personal and company as far as money and credit. Doing so means if one is ruined then both are ruined. If you keep them sepearate then 1 can still survive on its own.
What is on your EX CR? If you have been denied and they pulled your EX report you get a free pull of your EX from their site. I would suggest you do that and see what is holding you back.
This is my problem SHOGUN, I have pulled my report from EX and everything is correct on there, however for some unknown reason I am not able to access my score online with them. the score they have given me through a lender is at 504 it has been at 504 since I started on the credit trip. 7 months and the score is no diff??? this is supposed to be a score plus so should not be so low compared to my advantage score with TU at 671... that should be over 700 next week as I dont have any balances now at all. a 200 point difference is what concerns me here with EX... and when I ring them up I get nowhere with the dorks over the phone... I have sent off for my report with them, then I guess ill have the ref number to hopefully dispute the report and scoring. I get the feeling that my report with them is not generating a score, it is as if it is frozen... 504 in march and 504 in sep??? when the other scores elsewhere are way higher.
SHOGUN.... I also notice that you had a starting score of 504?
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SHOGUN.... I also notice that you had a starting score of 504?
Sure did. And EX has been by far the most difficult to deal with. They try to keep as much information from the consumer as they possibly can. Any and all scores you get from anywhere for EX are absolute garbage unless they are vendor pulled. I've had a difference of 157 points difference between my real FICO and their FAKO. Get that report, things for me tended to stay on EX when they were supposed to be gone. I had to go back and remind them of this fact.
When I started on the credit trip I applied for certain credit cards to get me started, you have to start somewhere... got plenty of refusals straight away which is expected is it not.
Must admit at the start I did apply for around 10 cards, 10 HP's there. when letters started to arrive I realized that with no history and no score creditors had a good enough reason to refuse me.
From the refusal letters I decided to contact TU as it appeared no one had any data with regards to my new ssn being authentic. after sending in all my details into TU I finaly was able to open an online account with them to view my new file and report. I did not do this with the other 2 beuraus as I thought that it would be done on its own.
After a month or so my score with TU was at the 718 mark. Great I thought now maybe I can get some approvals as I have some form of score that has been registered with the big boys. Applied for 6 more cards to which I was successful in gaining. There is another 6 HP's
Now I was on the road and thought that because I have a decent score I could get better cards with better limits..."yeah right" bitten there... and since then I learned that the score given was a FAKO one as non of my new credit accounts had reached the 6 month mark where then my true FICO score was generated.
So I have spent all that time applying under the pretence that I had a good enough score when indeed it was not true at all...
I have not applied for anything since then until recently as I have waited until one of my cards hit the 6 month mark(well 7 month infact) and thinking that my score should be at least in the FAIR to GOOD range of things by now.
I got an increase on my lowes card a few weeks.. refused at first but they gave me a little increase of an extra $200 to help pay for a generator due to hurricane Isaac coming through, I did not use this but got my limit increased to help build a bigger overal limit and lower utilization etc etc.
There is another HP... 17 there, with the 2 recent applications that's 19 in total... that's 12 that were unnecessary but I had to try to get off the ground.
What I am going to do now is get to the bottom of the score with EX to make sure nothing is wrong with them.. after this I do not intend in applying for anymore credit until pre approvals come to me... and I intend on finding a credit union that looks beyond a computer generated score. the HP's I feel can be justified to a CU as new to all of this...and mistakes were genuine enough.
As for mixing business with personal that is a no no with me... a personal loan to use for my business is not relevent at all... I have a small concrete business earning me a wage right now but I am not able to do the bigger work due to not having the tools and advertising etc. I have a new business cc that my wife got for our business but limit is to low to even mess around with @$1k. Great start for my business credit scoring at least along with the business phone I have had now for 5 months...we have over $8k combined CL's right now but dont use them as I need a loan that will more than cover all our business needs and cover payments on any CC's we end up using... this type of business is one that means one decent size job would mean all loans paid off immediately and some in the bank.... it is a no brainer of a business. I just wanted decent CC limits to show lenders I have the spending power there and don't abuse it nor appear to be desperate for it.
Those Inquires will stay on your report for 2 years, however in regards to your score, they will only affect them for a year. Sit back, garden what you have for awhile. Try and get the negatives off your report. It takes a little time. Don't worry about the scores so much or it will drive you bonkers. Just work on cleaning your report and keeping it clean. The rest will come.
OP, ignore the scores from the CRAs, annualcreditreport.com, Prosper, etc.
Ignore FAKO scores.
Prosper uses a ScoreX Plus score.
Ignore FAKO scores? all well and good ignoring them, I totaly agree there but when a loan company your applying with gives you your score back as fako one then were on earth do you stand if my fake score is not correct? I just cant sit back and not know what on earth is going on with experian scoring with my real score or the fake one can I now.
My fake "vantage" TU score just went up to 706 and I still have 3 cards to be updated any time now with all balances clear, so that should rise considerably albeit not worth the excitement unless my true FICO score goes up the same..lol
anyway's thanks to you all for trying to help.... ringing EX up in the morning even though my report has not come yet with the ref number...